Fairly suspicious that this venue is going to shift to an ELK ELK ELK! site for the next couple weeks, meaning my list of good stuff I read will get all unwieldy once again, so, will just post what I got so far:
Search Results for: best reads from lately
some of these seem to be auto-embedding just with a header-img, now. but: seems to click through.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/09/17/the-disappeared
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…):
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string
Once again, I let this get to be an unwieldy enough stack of links/reads that to slow down and make them into a pretty and proper list would keep me from revising the novel I’m revising. So, in all their likely awkwardness, with apologies for some embedding, some being URLS, some shuddering into some completely new and unlikely form, here’s my best reads from . . . lately:
https://elemental.medium.com/science-confirms-that-the-vagus-nerve-is-key-to-wel…
This paste-in isn’t going to be as bulletpoint-neat as before, with quotation marks and titles. But that’s just because I skipped a month of posting these, so they kind of built up, became a job. Anyway, for some reason some embeds create blank space right after them, which is kind of unkillable. Sorry for the weirdlookingness, and the occasional bulletpoint for what would seem to be no reason, but really that’s the only way to keep the link from trying, and …
- “How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“
- “‘Oldest remains’ outside Africa reset human migration clock“
- “Paul Tremblay Is Horror’s Newest Big Thing“
- “skeleton of glass and marmelade“
- “Ancient DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time“
- “Remains of 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem“
- “In Which
Ones I thought to copy onto a scratchpad, anyway:
- “Forget Strong Female Characters! We Need Complicated Female Characters Who Screw Up (A Lot)“
- “Interview: Jonathan Frakes On Casting Marina Sirtis And What ‘The Orville’ And ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Share“
- “It’s Time to Give Billy Joel the Respect He Deserves“
- “Why narrating an audiobook is a LOT harder than you think“
- “Neanderthals May Have Taught Humans to Joi
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